Witco had the largest dollar trade on the TTSE on Tuesday.
Trading activity closed with 6 stocks rising while 4 declined and 4 remained unchanged as 571,256 shares valued at $5,404,483 changed hands, compared to 153,635 shares valued at $1,497,555 on Monday. Two stocks closed at new 52 weeks’ high.
The market closed with positive movements in two of the indices with the the Composite Index advancing by 3.81 points to close at 1,172.26. The All T&T Index closed with a gain of 0.65 points to 1,805.44, down 7.34 percent for 2016 and the Cross Listed Index fell 0.95 points to 71.94 points and is up 45.30 percent year to date.
IC bid-offer Indicator| The Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator ended with 6 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 7 with lower offers.
Gains| Clico Investment Fund closed with 15,500 shares valued at $350,300 changing hands with a rise of 1 cent to $22.59, Firstcaribbean International Bank ended trading with 5,000 shares and closed with a rise of 19 cents at a 52 weeks’ high of $8, Grace Kennedy contributed 40,986 shares to close at a 52 weeks’ high of $2.65 after rising 5 cents. Point Lisas gained 10 cents and closed at $3.70 with 826 units changing hands, Prestige Holdings with 1,232 units changing hands, ended at $11.10 to record a gain of 10 cents and Scotiabank gained 5 cents and closed with 600 shares changing hands at $58.56.
Losses| Massy Holdings ended with 137 shares changing hands at $51.43 after losing 7 cents,
Sagicor Financial traded 855 units and lost 20 cents to close at $7, Trinidad and Tobago NGL closed at $23.54 with 20,444 units with a value of $481,187 trading, after falling 1 cent and Trinidad Cement lost 2 cents in trading 7,898 units at $3.98.Firm Trades| Angostura Holdings ended with 2,219 shares changing hands to close at $14.65, First Citizens traded 4,940 to close at $32, Guardian Holdings traded 7,721 shares with the price closing at $12.60 and JMMB Group closed at 85 cents with 434,803 units valued $369,582, switching ownership and West Indian Tobacco in trading 28,950 shares with a value of $3,676,650 to close $127.
on a moderate pace on Tuesday, with all the market indices rising. Trading volume and values rose from Monday’s level, with advancing stocks beating out declining ones 4 to 1. 
CAC reported a loss of $9 million after tax for the July 2016 quarter and profit of $31 million after tax for the nine months period, compared to $39 million for the July 2015 quarter and a profit of $71.6 million for the nine months to July 2015.
The selling rate of the Jamaican dollar closed unchanged on Monday as dealers bought the equivalent of US$66,732,742 of all currencies, and sold US$47,361,025, compared to US$62,281,233 purchased and US$50,300,502 sold on Friday. 
with dealers buying C$2,442,115 and selling C$1,709,029 at an average rate that rose 15 cents to $97.50. The average rate for buying the British Pound dropped 63 cents to $154.41 for the purchase of £1,505,320 while £955,498 was sold with a fall of 24 cents to end at $157.29.
Highs & Lows| Notable changes to the highest and lowest rates for the regularly traded currencies, in the foreign exchange market on Monday, include a jump of $14.71 in the lowest buying rate for the US Dollar to $104.71. The lowest buying rate for the Canadian dollar declined $1.37 to $77.31, the highest selling rate fell $1.78 to $100.60. The highest buying rate for the British Pound surged $7.95 to $166. Trading in the Euro resulted in a fall of $1.50 in the highest buying rate to $138, the lowest buying rate dipped $1.24 to $112.30 and the highest selling rate fell $1.36 to $146.38. 
Bank of Jamaica intervened in the rigged foreign exchange market on Friday by selling US$30 million to authorised dealers and cambios, the sale did not prevent the value of the Jamaican dollar from slipping 4 Jamaican cents to end at an average of $129.19 to US$1 as US$58 million was bought by dealers and US$48 million was sold to end users. 
Investor’s Choice bid-offer indicator reading shows 13 stocks with bids higher than their last selling prices and 5 with lower offers.
Pan Jamaican Investments gained 1 cent and closed at $22.56 after trading 84,165 shares, Portland JSX traded 549,651 units with the price falling 6 cents to $11.04, Pulse Investments traded 20,000 shares and lost 60 cents to close at $3.30, Radio Jamaica traded 400,000 units and gained 5 cents to end at $1.40. Sagicor Group had 48,361 shares changing hands and closed with a fall of 45 cents at $22.55, Scotia Group rose 2 cents and closed at $30.04 with 1,179,017 shares changing hands. Scotia Investments dropped $2.91 with 28,735 units changing hands to close at $31.04. Seprod had 18,853 units changing hands to close at $24.60, Sterling Investments lost 1 cents in trading 38,000 shares to close at $14.99, Supreme Ventures traded 2,215,656 shares buy fell 2 cents to close at $4.50 after the company’s Chief Executive passed over the week end and Proven Investments traded 150,800 units at 18 US cents after rising 1.5 cents.
Market activities ended with 5 securities closing with bids higher than their last selling prices and 2 ending with lower offers.
Jetcon Corporation ended with 54,796 shares trading at $4.20. Knutsford Express ended at $23 with 8,500 shares changing hands, Lasco Distributors traded 250,864 units trading with a loss of 16 cents at $6.83, Lasco Financial lost 1 cent and ended with 99,572 shares changing hands at $3.09, Lasco Manufacturing rose 7 cents and closed at $4.86 with 9,123 shares trading. Medical Disposables rose 40 cents to close at $5 with 1,335,514 shares changing hands, Paramount Trading lost 12 cents to close at $23.88 with 113,273 shares changing hands and Eppley 9.5% preference share, traded 819,800 units and fell 14 cents to $6.16.
with 2,000 shares changing hands with the price closing with a gain of 5 cents at $10.25.
Trading volume and values fell from Friday’s level, with advancing stocks being beating declining ones. 
Mentors are supposed to advice and guide junior market companies’ directors in the ways of the securities market as well as other business related issues to help steer them in areas they may not be familiar with. Mentorship was wisely assessed to be needed for the smaller companies, many of whom were not being governed to the more rigorous manner that their main market neighbours are. 
Their failure of the board to do their work properly cannot be placed solely at the feet of the executives.
